Barack Obama Quotes
We have a historic opportunity to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons in Iran, and to do so peacefully, with the international community firmly behind us. We should seize that chance.
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To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.
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We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
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I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.
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I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
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I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
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I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me.
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Rolling Stone: What was your headspace at the time of Superunknown? A lot of the lyrics are dark.
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This wisdom of crowds thing--it may be a cliche, but it's mostly true. What we're talking about here is a democracy, and it works, but you have to be careful before it gets out of control.
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The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop aging. But it is possible, by committing to show up for others in community after community, to earn a measure of immortality.
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When the iPhone was first announced, CEO Steve Jobs spewed enough BS to cover a football field full of babies 3 feet deep in bullshit, which sounds cool because he could have potentially murdered a football field full of babies, but he passed on this opportunity by introducing the phone instead.
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We have a historic opportunity to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons in Iran, and to do so peacefully, with the international community firmly behind us. We should seize that chance.
